MC-LExt: Multi-Channel Target Speaker Extraction with Onset-Prompted Speaker Conditioning Mechanism

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Main Authors: Ling, Tongtao, He, Shulin, Shen, Pengjie, Wang, Zhong-Qiu
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author Ling, Tongtao
He, Shulin
Shen, Pengjie
Wang, Zhong-Qiu
author_facet Ling, Tongtao
He, Shulin
Shen, Pengjie
Wang, Zhong-Qiu
contents Multi-channel target speaker extraction (MC-TSE) aims to extract a target speaker's voice from multi-speaker signals captured by multiple microphones. Existing methods often rely on auxiliary clues such as direction-of-arrival (DOA) or speaker embeddings. However, DOA-based approaches depend on explicit direction estimation and are sensitive to microphone array geometry, while methods based on speaker embeddings model speaker identity in an implicit manner and may degrade in noisy-reverberant conditions. To address these limitations, we propose multi-channel listen to extract (MC-LExt), a simple but highly-effective framework for MC-TSE. Our key idea is to prepend a short enrollment utterance of the target speaker to each channel of the multi-channel mixture, providing an onset-prompted conditioning signal that can guide TSE. This design allows the deep neural network (DNN) to learn spatial and speaker identity cues jointly in a fully end-to-end manner. Experiments on noisy-reverberant benchmarks, including WHAMR! and MC-Libri2Mix, demonstrate the effectiveness of MC-TSE.
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spellingShingle MC-LExt: Multi-Channel Target Speaker Extraction with Onset-Prompted Speaker Conditioning Mechanism
Ling, Tongtao
He, Shulin
Shen, Pengjie
Wang, Zhong-Qiu
Audio and Speech Processing
Multi-channel target speaker extraction (MC-TSE) aims to extract a target speaker's voice from multi-speaker signals captured by multiple microphones. Existing methods often rely on auxiliary clues such as direction-of-arrival (DOA) or speaker embeddings. However, DOA-based approaches depend on explicit direction estimation and are sensitive to microphone array geometry, while methods based on speaker embeddings model speaker identity in an implicit manner and may degrade in noisy-reverberant conditions. To address these limitations, we propose multi-channel listen to extract (MC-LExt), a simple but highly-effective framework for MC-TSE. Our key idea is to prepend a short enrollment utterance of the target speaker to each channel of the multi-channel mixture, providing an onset-prompted conditioning signal that can guide TSE. This design allows the deep neural network (DNN) to learn spatial and speaker identity cues jointly in a fully end-to-end manner. Experiments on noisy-reverberant benchmarks, including WHAMR! and MC-Libri2Mix, demonstrate the effectiveness of MC-TSE.
title MC-LExt: Multi-Channel Target Speaker Extraction with Onset-Prompted Speaker Conditioning Mechanism
topic Audio and Speech Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.15437